The Council opened up an era of earnest endeavour not only to explain to others the Church's teaching, but also to understand their outlook.

Let's go to the market square and see them at their earnest endeavors.

Ben can see by the way he holds himself that the process is one of a most earnest endeavour.

It was always an earnest endeavor," she said, "but the tonal qualities were not always great.

Then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state.

She added, "Music, to me, is an earnest populist endeavor and this was a cynical populist one."

Was this hypocrisy or an earnest endeavor to reform?

This defect it shall be my earnest endeavour to remedy.

"There is a lot of earnest endeavor going on here," she says.

He spoke with an air of earnest endeavour to do his duty as a citizen-however distasteful it might be.